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Rob Elkins, ESRI’s ArcGIS Desktop Product Manager, discusses the enhancements and new capabilities of ArcGIS Desktop 10.
Has the exposure of satellite information by popular Internet mapping platforms led to a greater awareness of the value of remote sensing? Have best practices been established since geospatial professionals have taken a leading role during several "crisis mapping" efforts in Haiti and Chile? Joel Campbell, president of ERDAS, provides his views on what's needed as remotely sensed data and image processing become key elements in delivering essential information in near real-time and what that means for a changing business model.
Simon Thompson, ESRI's Commercial Business Manager, explains how financial institutions can use GIS to better serve their customers by providing products and services targeted to their needs.
Has there been a greater awareness of the value of remote sensing since satellite information was exposed through popular Internet mapping platforms? Have best practices been established since geospatial professionals have taken a leading role during several "crisis mapping" efforts in Haiti and Chile? Joel Campbell, president of ERDAS, provides his views on what's needed as remotely sensed data and image processing become key elements in delivering essential information in near real-time and what that means for a changing business model. "While the "Googles" and the "Microsofts" of the world have really raised the awareness the value of geospatial data and geospatial thinking, there hasn't been a parallel raising of the understanding of what geospatial data and analysis is really all about," says Campbell, president of ERDAS. Editor in chief Joe Francica explores more in this interview. [podcast: "ERDAS_JoelCampbell.mp3"]
Este Geraghty, Assistant Professor of Clinical Internal Medicine at the University of California, Davis, discusses the value of GIS for health providers to better understand and manage disease.
Ray Carnes of ESRI explains why you should attend Better Ways to Design and Share Maps, a free U.S. nationwide seminar that presents time and cost-saving resources for increased productivity creating maps.
Simon Thompson, ESRI's Commercial Business Manager, explains how GIS gives retailers of any size a more comprehensive understanding of their business and customers.
Victoria Kouyoumjian, ESRI’s IT strategy architect, discusses ESRI’s position on open source and the importance of open source software in GIS application development.
Cathy McCully, chief, and Deirdre Bishop, assistant chief of the U.S. Census Bureau Redistricting Data Office, discuss the use of GIS in testing tabulation and processing systems for the 2010 U.S. Census.
Lim Ming Khai, head of the Land Information Centre for the Singapore Land Authority, discusses its national land information sharing system built on ESRI’s GIS technology.
Journal News Removes Interactive Gun Permit Map
The Lower Hudson Journal News has been under fire for publishing a map of gun permit holders in two counties in New York State before Christma. (APB coverage 1, 2, podcast). On Friday January 18 the paper removed the interactive map. Why? Publisher Janet Hasson gave answers in a media statement and in a letter to readers.
In a statement in response to The Poynter Institute (a journalism school) she argued:
With the passage this week of the NYSAFE gun law, which allows permit holders to request their names and addresses be removed from the public record, we decided to remove the gun permit data from lohud.com at 5 pm today. While the new law does not require us to remove the data, we believe that doing so complies with its spirit. For the past four weeks, there has been vigorous debate over our publication of the permit data, which has been viewed nearly 1.2 million times by readers. One of our core missions as a newspaper is to empower our readers with as much information as possible on the critical issues they face, and guns have certainly become a top issue since the massacre in nearby Newtown, Conn. Sharing as much public information as possible provides our readers with the ability to contribute to the discussion, in any way they wish, on how to make their communities safer. We remain committed to our mission of providing the critical public service of championing free speech and open records.
In a letter to readers published on Friday she wrote:
So intense was the opposition to our publication of the names and addresses that legislation passed earlier this week in Albany included a provision allowing permit holders to request confidentiality and imposing a 120-day moratorium on the release of permit holder data.
She goes on to say that during the 27 days the map was online any one interested would have seen it and that the data would eventually be out of date. She also noted that the paper does not endorse the way the state chose to limit availability of the data.
The original map/article still includes a graphic - but it's a snapshot, a raster image, with no interactivity. Says Hasson in the letter to readers:
And we will keep a snapshot of our map — with all its red dots — on our website to remind the community that guns are a fact of life we should never forget.
I continue to applaud the paper for requesting the data via a Freedom on Informat request, mapping it, keeping the map up despite threats and criticism and now responding to state law. I think the paper did a service to the state, to citizens and to journalism.
- via reader Jim and Poynter
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